shokufeh is…home

I recently started following bahainspire on Twitter. Today’s tweet was, well… inspiring. And intriguing enough that I clicked on the link for the full text:

O God, Almighty Protector! O Thou Who art the confirmer of every just power and equitable empire in eternal glory, everlasting power, continuance and greatness! Strengthen with the abundance of Thy mercy every government which acts with equity towards its subjects, and every dominion under whose flag the poor and weak find protection.

We ask Thee by Thy holiness and bounty to pour out Thy blessing upon this government which has stretched its tent over citizens from every land, that its inhabitants, its industries, its territories may be penetrated by justice.

O God! Strengthen its executives, give authority and influence to its word and utterance, protect its territories and dominions, guard its reputation, make its ideals to echo throughout the world, reveal its traces and exalt its principles by Thy conquering power and wonderful might throughout the kingdoms of creation.

Thou art the confirmer of whomsoever Thou willest. Verily, Thou art the powerful and the mighty!

And then I was even more intrigued, because this isn’t a prayer I’m familiar with. Google led me to this amazing piece of history, authorized by the Tenth annual convention of the Bahai’s of America held in Chicago, April 29-30, 1918. I will so be checking this out further.

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About a month ago, I turned to Sam and excitedly informed him that we were less than 400 days from the future.  Yes, I know that the future is always upon us.  But the real future, the one in the category of 2010 is almost here.  So shocking.

The past week has been filled with packing boxes, moving to the upstairs apartment (same building, different street address), and attempting to unpack.  It’s funny – the layout is almost the same as downstairs, so you think it would be easy to unpack and resume life.  But there are slight differences which have to be adjusted for, and I guess I wasn’t totally happy with the way we’d put things downstairs.  So we’re probably about half unpacked.

Which made getting ready to return to work and school a little more challenging.  It was hard enough going through this weekend knowing that our two weeks off was coming to an end, but having boxes about made it all the more cumbersome.  Amazingly, we made it to work and school pretty much on time, all of us with clothes and shoes on and with food in our bellies.  When I walked into MrMan’s class, I discovered that one of my friend’s sons has joined the school, and MrMan’s class.  And when I walked out of school, I found forty dollars on the sidewalk.  So not the worst day back, by any means.

My new year’s resolution is that we will have unpacked everything by the time the real future arrives.

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